States must act resolutely on UN report on Syria

Headline Title: States must act resolutely on UN report on Syria 28 November 2011 Amnesty International today urged states to act on a UN report confirming that Syrian security forces committed crimes against humanity during their violent crackdown on demonstrators this year. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry’s report, released in Geneva today, called on the Government of Syria to launch “independent and impartial investigations of these violations and to bring perpetrators to justice”.It also called on the Syrian government to put an immediate end to the…

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